Amway/Quixtar Buys A Candidate While Karl Rove Juggles, Blackmails, and Uses The F-word to Refer to Christians

That seems to be the speculation, and the candidate Amway/Quixtar bought may be Former Florida Representative Republican Mark Foley (which now seems like quite a strange match for Amway and Co.

Read from MLM Liberal:

And it got worse tonight for Rove, as MSNBC's Keith Olbermann had an exclusive interview with David Kuo, a special assistant to the President from 2001 to 2003 and the author of a new book, Tempting Faith:

He says some of the nation’s most prominent evangelical leaders were known in the office of presidential political strategist Karl Rove as “the nuts.”

“National Christian leaders received hugs and smiles in person and then were dismissed behind their backs and described as ‘ridiculous,’ ‘out of control,’ and just plain ‘goofy,’” Kuo writes.
More seriously, Kuo alleges that then-White House political affairs director Ken Mehlman knowingly participated in a scheme to use the office, and taxpayer funds, to mount ostensibly “nonpartisan” events that were, in reality, designed with the intent of mobilizing religious voters in 20 targeted races.

Nineteen out of the 20 targeted races were won by Republicans, Kuo reports. The outreach was so extensive and so powerful in motivating not just conservative evangelicals, but also traditionally Democratic minorities, that Kuo attributes Bush’s 2004 Ohio victory “at least partially … to the conferences we had launched two years before.”

With the exception of one reporter from the Washington Post, Kuo says the media were oblivious to the political nature and impact of his office’s events...

That reporter, Tom Edsall, comes up in the next post.